It seems that Darl McBride, the infamous CEO of The SCO Group, Incorporated, has been unceremoniously let go. Groklaw broke the news a few days ago, and I am sure many Linux users breathed an ever so slight sigh of relief. No, this does not end the ridiculous lawsuits, but it cannot hurt for SCO to lose its zealous leader. Read the rest of this entry »
Tom recently asked me:
I was told you have a Commercial and Personal [insurance] Lines Agency Management System, is this correct? If so what is the cost and do you have info on capability?
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On October 26, 2009, Geocities is scheduled to be shut down. I was one of the many homesteaders (as the users were called) who joined in 1996. Geocities was perhaps the first social networking site, divided into regions based on the theme of your site. My site, Phil Frisbie’s Programming Page, was in the Silicon Valley area for high tech sites. Read the rest of this entry »
As a web developer it is critical to test with multiple browsers. Since 1996, when I first began developing web pages, I have always tested with the current version of IE and Netscape (now Firefox). That still provides a fairly good test, but today, with many people (rightfully) hanging on to older version of MS Windows and older version of IE, it is important to test with older versions of IE also. Read the rest of this entry »
Li recently asked me:
You said [referring to an old Usenet post] all versions of Windows have included the GSM-FR codec since at least 1995. How to use them in windows? I did not find it out.
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